Bookstudy Party–January 4

Another day, another party! As I mentioned earlier, our meeting schedule has been reformatted and the bookstudy has been eliminated. Now I’ve been going to the Kingdom Hall for almost 25 years and we have ALWAYS had a bookstudy. Once a week everyone in our congregation meets in private homes in smaller, assigned groups with an elder who takes the lead in conducting a study of one of our publications. Hence the name–bookstudy. It was the only weekly meeting not held at the Kingdom Hall. Now that the meetings have been combined, our meetings are solely at the Kingdom Hall and instead of having 3 meetings a week, we now have 2. This is the new arrangement for every Kingdom Hall in every country around the world. It’s a big deal! So Ron and Beth held a Goodbye Party for two bookstudy groups at their house–the Kingdom Hall Afternoon group and the Kingdom Hall Evening group (that’s us!). Now I was thinking there was going to be a couple of crock pots full of meatballs and a couple of Market Basket cakes. Boy, was I wrong! Beth had a formal, sitdown meal with REAL dishes and REAL silverware! There was turkey, ham, several different kinds of sweet potato dishes, mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, bread, salad, green beans, and a bunch of desserts. It was incredible! A very nice way to say goodbye to the bookstudy arrangement–something that we’d all grown up with!